Agility Digit 5: $200K Price Tag, $400K Five-Year Cost Revealed

Agility Robotics has published one of the most detailed public pricing breakdowns yet for a US humanoid robot, disclosing figures for its newly unveiled Digit 5 platform in a securities filing tied to a proposed SPAC deal.

According to the filing, Agility's illustrative pricing model puts the unit price of Digit 5 at approximately $200,000, with an additional deployment fee of roughly $20,000. Ongoing annual software and maintenance costs are estimated at about $36,000. Combined over a five-year period, Agility's model puts the total cost of ownership per robot at approximately $400,000.

Agility stressed that these numbers are illustrative rather than fixed, noting that actual customer contracts are negotiated individually. Even with that caveat, the disclosure gives the industry a rare order-of-magnitude benchmark for what enterprise buyers might expect to pay for a humanoid deployment, deployment support, and ongoing upkeep.

The pricing model arrives alongside news that Agility has secured more than $300 million in multiyear orders for Digit 5, even as the company reported just $1.8 million in net sales and a $140 million operating loss in 2025. The company is pursuing a SPAC transaction that would value it at approximately $2.5 billion and make it the first US humanoid maker to go public.

Context from competitors sharpens the significance of Agility's disclosed figures. Elon Musk has said Tesla's Optimus could eventually cost approximately $20,000 to $25,000 to produce — though that figure reflects production cost rather than a sale price, and is not directly comparable to Agility's all-in customer pricing model.

Agility currently has Digit robots running in nine customer facilities across North America, including deployments with Amazon, Toyota, and logistics company GXO. That operational footprint gives the company a base of real-world data to justify its pricing structure, even as questions remain about how standardized versus negotiated actual contract terms will be at scale.

The disclosure also comes as Digit 5 introduces a proximity-based safety system, designed to slow and then power down the robot as a person approaches — a feature Agility says emerged directly from customer feedback during earlier deployments. Whether the added safety architecture and hardware upgrades, including a 50-pound lift capacity and self-docking nine-minute charging, will support the pricing model at commercial scale is not yet established in the filing.

Sources: HUMANOID.INTEL — original article.